Ocala First Connection

Below is Pastor Rwth's sermon from this past Sunday (11-19-2017) including the slides she used during the 9:00 am Contemporary Service. You can view the video from the 11:00 am service on our website:  http://fumcocala.org/sermons/ +++++ After surgery and a couple of days in the hospital, my Mom went home and I helped care for her there.  In the mornings, I drank my coffee and read the local newspaper. I was struck by the obituaries.  Many of them were beautiful, moving tributes, often several paragraphs long and full of details that really expressed who the person was in life.  There was one detail that always stood out: what the person was devoted to.  For each person, their noted devotion was different.  But in every case, what they were devoted to made them real and gave them life—even in death.  Reading about their devotion to one thing or another made me feel like I knew them.   Devotion is a rather old-fashioned word. B...

Have you taken the time to give thanks to God today?  How have you expressed your gratitude for the forgiveness, grace and love of Jesus Christ?  How have you given thanks for the many gifts and blessings that we can count each and every day? We talked about gratitude this past Sunday and importance of finding concrete ways of expressing our thanks to God: through words of gratitude spoken to God in prayer each day through spending quality time focused on God in worship each week through giving of gifts through our tithes and offering and contributing to those in need through acts of service sharing the compassion and mercy of Jesus. Below is summary of Pastor David's sermon from Sunday.  You can see the sermon video on our website:  http://fumcocala.org/sermons/ +++++ Sermon Summary: November 12, 2017 Thy Kingdom Come: Gratitude Rev. David Fuquay Jesus was traveling towards Jerusalem. As he entered a village ten men...